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the longest word... and were you found it
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post Jan 25 2005, 05:31 AM
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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

there's another one.. 1913 letters long.

antidisestablishmentarianism

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

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post Jan 25 2005, 10:32 PM
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pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
^ learned this one in grade 8, after the 9/11 attack, my socials teacher started talking about the disease and we have to disect the word and had a test on it!

antidisestablishmentarianism
^i dont know it's from my childhood? it's like an actual long word that i learned when i was little tongue.gif

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
^ haha this one i was bored one day and looked up the "longest word in the world" in google and i found that
 
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post Mar 29 2005, 04:51 PM
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-Gastrocnemius
-Sustentraculumtali

Found: Learned it from my Sports Medicine class
 
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post Mar 29 2005, 10:35 PM
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df gbfgjhffkjfkjf,hkfkhgkjfghzdgjzd,jfhgzdkfjghdpiggyhgkfughikzfhgkzdjfghkjcfvhkzjd
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there is 2 words.
 
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post Mar 29 2005, 11:46 PM
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QUOTE(someflipguy @ Jan 7 2005, 4:14 PM)
(1,185) ACETYL­SERYL­TYROSYL­SERYL­ISO­LEUCYL­THREONYL­SERYL­PROLYL­SERYL­GLUTAMINYL­PHE
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­PROLYL­ISOLEUCYL­GLUTAMYL­LEUCYL­LEUCYL­ASPARAGINYL­VALYL­CYSTEINYL­THREONYL­SE
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LUTAMINYL­GLUTAMINYL­ALANYL­ARGINYL­THREONYL­THREONYL­GLUTAMINYL­VALYL­GLUTAMINY
­GLUTAMINYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­SERYL­GLUTAMINYL­VALYL­TRYPTOPHYL­LYSYL­PROLYL­PHENYL­
LANYL­PROLYL­GLUTAMINYL­SERYL­THREONYL­VALYL­ARGINYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­PROLYL­GLYCYL
ASPARTYL­VALYL­TYROSYL­LYSYL­VALYL­TYROSYL­ARGINYL­TYROSYL­ASPARAGINYL­ALANYL­VA
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HREONYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­ASPARTYL­THREONYL­ARGINYL­ASPARAGINYL­ARGINYL­ISOLEUCYL­IS
LEUCYL­GLUTAMYL­VALYL­GLUTAMYL­ASPARAGINYL­GLUTAMINYL­GLUTAMINYL­SERYL­PROLYL­TH
EONYL­THREONYL­ALANYL­GLUTAMYL­THREONYL­LEUCYL­ASPARTYL­ALANYL­THREONYL­ARGINYL­
RGINYL­VALYL­ASPARTYL­ASPARTYL­ALANYL­THREONYL­VALYL­ALANYL­ISOLEUCYL­ARGINYL­SE
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CYL­VALYL­ARGINYL­GLYCYL­THREONYL­GLYCYL­LEUCYL­TYROSYL­ASPARAGINYL­GLUTAMINYL­A
PARAGINYL­THREONYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­GLUTAMYL­SERYL­METHIONYL­SERYL­GLYCYL­LEUCYL­VA
YL­TRYPTOPHYL­THREONYL­SERYL­ALANYL­PROLYL­ALANYL­SERINE = Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain.
This word has appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts and is thus considered by some to be the longest real word.

http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_longest.html
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holy crap. blink.gif
 
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post Apr 1 2005, 03:16 AM
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TAUMATA­WHAKA­TANGI­HANGA­KOAUAU­O­TAMATEA­TURIPUKAKA­PIKI­MAUNGA­HORO­NUKU­POKA
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A hill in New Zealand.
 
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post Apr 1 2005, 03:25 AM
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longest word know:
NO.
 
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post Apr 3 2005, 10:20 PM
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antidisestablishmentarianism

my dad told it to me a long time ago
 
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post Apr 3 2005, 10:27 PM
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QUOTE(sharerol @ Dec 28 2004, 6:35 PM)
Word: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious whistling.gif
Found it: Mary Poppins
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same :)
 
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post Apr 4 2005, 12:09 PM
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FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION (29 letters; an estimation of something as worthless) is the longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
The 1992 Guinness Book of World Records calls floccinaucinihilipilification "the longest real word in the Oxford English Dictionary," whereas it calls pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis "the longest made-up word in the Oxford English Dictionary."

The Merriam-Webster website in 2002 stated that floccinaucinihilipilification "is not in any of the Merriam-Webster dictionaries because our evidence shows us that it is ... almost always used simply as an example of a long word."

In this word the letter i occurs nine times, but e, the most commonly used letter in English, does not occur.


ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM (28 letters) may be the best-known long word. The word means "the belief which opposes removing the tie between church and state."

FOUND IT:longest words site
 
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post Apr 5 2005, 08:03 PM
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QUOTE(someflipguy @ Jan 7 2005, 4:14 PM)
(1,185) ACETYL­SERYL­TYROSYL­SERYL­ISO­LEUCYL­THREONYL­SERYL­PROLYL­SERYL­GLUTAMINYL­PHE
YL­ALANYL­VALYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­LEUCYL­SERYL­SERYL­VALYL­TRYPTOPHYL­ALANYL­ASPARTY
­PROLYL­ISOLEUCYL­GLUTAMYL­LEUCYL­LEUCYL­ASPARAGINYL­VALYL­CYSTEINYL­THREONYL­SE
YL­SERYL­LEUCYL­GLYCYL­ASPARAGINYL­GLUTAMINYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­GLUTAMINYL­THREONYL­
LUTAMINYL­GLUTAMINYL­ALANYL­ARGINYL­THREONYL­THREONYL­GLUTAMINYL­VALYL­GLUTAMINY
­GLUTAMINYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­SERYL­GLUTAMINYL­VALYL­TRYPTOPHYL­LYSYL­PROLYL­PHENYL­
LANYL­PROLYL­GLUTAMINYL­SERYL­THREONYL­VALYL­ARGINYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­PROLYL­GLYCYL
ASPARTYL­VALYL­TYROSYL­LYSYL­VALYL­TYROSYL­ARGINYL­TYROSYL­ASPARAGINYL­ALANYL­VA
YL­LEUCYL­ASPARTYL­PROLYL­LEUCYL­ISOLEUCYL­THREONYL­ALANYL­LEUCYL­LEUCYL­GLYCYL­
HREONYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­ASPARTYL­THREONYL­ARGINYL­ASPARAGINYL­ARGINYL­ISOLEUCYL­IS
LEUCYL­GLUTAMYL­VALYL­GLUTAMYL­ASPARAGINYL­GLUTAMINYL­GLUTAMINYL­SERYL­PROLYL­TH
EONYL­THREONYL­ALANYL­GLUTAMYL­THREONYL­LEUCYL­ASPARTYL­ALANYL­THREONYL­ARGINYL­
RGINYL­VALYL­ASPARTYL­ASPARTYL­ALANYL­THREONYL­VALYL­ALANYL­ISOLEUCYL­ARGINYL­SE
YL­ALANYL­ASPARAGINYL­ISOLEUCYL­ASPARAGINYL­LEUCYL­VALYL­ASPARAGINYL­GLUTAMYL­LE
CYL­VALYL­ARGINYL­GLYCYL­THREONYL­GLYCYL­LEUCYL­TYROSYL­ASPARAGINYL­GLUTAMINYL­A
PARAGINYL­THREONYL­PHENYL­ALANYL­GLUTAMYL­SERYL­METHIONYL­SERYL­GLYCYL­LEUCYL­VA
YL­TRYPTOPHYL­THREONYL­SERYL­ALANYL­PROLYL­ALANYL­SERINE = Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain.
This word has appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts and is thus considered by some to be the longest real word.

http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_longest.html
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Dude that would suck if you got that word in a spelling bee. pinch.gif
 
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post Apr 5 2005, 09:17 PM
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QUOTE(x____duckii @ Jan 2 2005, 10:16 PM)
Word:  Phenylketonurics
Found: Victoria's Secret mint tin
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Phenylketonurics is an amino acid. If you have PKU (a disease), then you can't digest it, and will probably get sick or die or something like that.

Oh my gosh, my biology teacher would totally love that 1000+ lettered word. Dang.

The longest word I knew before reading this post was pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis... lung disease.
 
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post Apr 6 2005, 08:43 PM
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hydroxypropyltrimonium..found it ont he back of a shampoo bottle.
 
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post Apr 6 2005, 08:45 PM
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smile...
its got a mile in the middle!
 
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post Apr 10 2005, 12:01 AM
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supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

^^ found it in an IM with a guy who sings (or if we're online types) random showtunes when he's bored.
 

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